Dunham later admitted she reacted to criticism by thinking: "No one would be calling me a racist if they knew how badly I wanted to f--- Drake."

To celebrate the final season of "Girls," The Hollywood reporter published an oral history of the series. In it, Dunham recounted talking to her now-partner Jack Antonoff about the criticisms being leveled at "Girls" for its homogeneous cast.

As she retells the story, Dunham calls her own comment "really, really dumb" while also seemingly excusing her thoughts because she was 25 years old at the time.

Here's the full section from The Hollywood Reporter:

I had been metabolizing the criticism all week, and I made a really, really dumb joke that I'm perfectly fine to repeat now 'cause I was f------ 25. I said, "No one would be calling me a racist if they knew how badly I wanted to f— Drake."

He said, "Don't say that in public; that's not going to help you." I just didn't get it. I was like, "I have the three most annoying white friends, and I'm making a TV show about it."

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In 2015, Dunham compared Bill Cosby to the Holocaust.

In an interview with "Girls" showrunner Jenni Konner for Time Out, Dunham and Konner discussed how their executive producer Judd Apatow had been outspoken against Bill Cosby in the wake of his rape allegations.

"It's sort of like saying someone's obsessed with the Holocaust," Dunham replied.

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The day the interview was published, Dunham said it wasn't her "best analogy."

In a move that seemed to pre-empt criticism, Dunham posted an Instagram photo about the interview that included the caption: "I'm already aware comparing Bill Cosby to the Holocaust wasn't my best analogy."

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Dunham said she believed football player Odell Beckham Jr. had behaved misogynistically towards her at the 2016 Met Gala, despite him never speaking to her.

Dunham published a conversation between herself and comedian Amy Schumer in a September 2016 issue of Lenny Letter. In the interview, Dunham describes sitting next to NFL star Odell Beckham Jr.

It was so amazing because it was like he looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards. He was like, "That's a marshmallow. That's a child. That's a dog." It wasn't mean — he just seemed confused.

The vibe was very much like, "Do I want to f--- it? Is it wearing a … yep, it's wearing a tuxedo. I'm going to go back to my cell phone." It was like we were forced to be together, and he literally was scrolling Instagram rather than have to look at a woman in a bow tie. I was like, "This should be called the Metropolitan Museum of Getting Rejected by Athletes."

However, there's a decent chance Beckham Jr. didn't know who Dunham was, and he didn't speak to her or comment on her appearance in any way.

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At first, Dunham seemed to dismiss the criticism of her interview with Schumer, but she later issued an apology to Beckham Jr. over Instagram.

Odell Beckham Jr. playing for the New York Giants.
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"Glad the outrage machine roars on though, right [Amy Schumer]?" Dunham tweeted on September 2.

But the next day Dunham posted an Instagram photo of a neon sign that read: "Sorry. Flowers die."

The caption was a lengthy apology to Beckham Jr., explaining that her insecurity over being someone who doesn't "rep a certain standard of beauty" played into her comments to Schumer.

"I went ahead and projected these insecurities and made totally narcissistic assumptions about what he was thinking, then presented those assumptions as facts," Dunham wrote. "I feel terrible about it [...] But most importantly, I would never intentionally contribute to a long and often violent history of the over-sexualization of black male bodies — as well as false accusations by white women towards black men. I'm so sorry, particularly to OBJ, who has every right to be on his cell phone."

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Dunham said she wished she had "had an abortion," and later had to clarify her statement.

In December 2016, during a "Woman of the Hour" podcast episode, Dunham and her guests spoke about reproductive choice. The actress recounted a story about being at a Planned Parenthood event and being asked to share her story of having an abortion.

But Dunham didn't have a story to tell, and says she realized in that moment that she had her own issues of stigma with abortion.

"Even I, the woman who cares as much as anybody about a woman's right to choose, felt it was important that people know that I was unblemished in this department," Dunham said. "Now I can say that I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had."

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Dunham apologized for her abortion comment on Instagram, calling it a "distasteful joke."

"My words were spoken from a sort of 'delusional girl' persona I often inhabit, a girl who careens between wisdom and ignorance (that's what my TV show is too) and it didn't translate," Dunham wrote. "That's my fault. I would never, ever intentionally trivialize the emotional and physical challenges of terminating a pregnancy."

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Rose McGowan and others reacted negatively to a comment Dunham made about how speaking out against Harvey Weinstein made men more attractive.

The day the news broke, Dunham and Konner released a joint statement saying they stood by Murray.

"While our first instinct is to listen to every woman's story, our insider knowledge of Murray's situation makes us confident that sadly this accusation is one of the 3% of assault cases that are misreported every year," their statement read.

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The next day, Dunham tweeted an apology for her statement.

On Saturday night, Dunham tweeted a new statement regarding her previously stated beliefs about the accusation against Murray.

"We have been given the gift of powerful voices and by speaking out we were putting our thumb on the scale and it was wrong," Dunham wrote. "We regret this decision with every fiber of our being."

For a full look at Dunham's recent controversy, including the public resignation of one writer from Lenny Letter (who cited Dunham's "hipster racism" as part of the issue), read our breakdown here.